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Simple yes recommended NO!!!
Using DOS to copy windows files is a potential disaster. DOS programs do not
know about long file names. Windows and windows applications use LFNs
everywhere including directories and subdirectories. There are utilities
from MS that will convert from LFN to 8.3 and 8.3 to LFN but they have to be
used with extreme care and you may not end up the same names that you
started with (How nice for your applications that have stored the old
names). MS recommends that once you convert to Windows forget DOS and use
windows based products to copy/move/backup files.
For those who have been getting away with ignoring this recommendation from
MS, maybe TS version 5 will have some surprises for them.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Augustine <RonAug@xxxxxxxx>
To: Jim Hill <ender5@xxxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: Do you use PQ Drive Image??
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>One very simple way to copy from one drive to another in Win-95 is to use a
>DOS statement like the following.
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>C:\windows\command\xcopy32.exe c:\omega\*.* d:\omega\ /m /s /e
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>It will copy only files that have changed since it was last executed. It
>will also copy to a Network drive, assuming the drive mapped.
>
>You can set it up as a Win-95 Shortcut Icon. If you want to automate it,
>you can use a scheduler, such as ClockMan.
>
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>At 06:44 PM 5/4/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>I'd appreciate your comments if you use Power Quest's Drive Image or any
>>other drive imaging product. I will be coping under Win95 from one hard
>>drive to another.
>>
>>Does Drive Image have a scheduler?
>>Do you have to copy the entire hard drive or can you select folders?
>>Can you use mapped drives from a network?
>>
>>Thanks in advance, jim hill
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